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help with pagefile
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Tim OFF TOPIC Mike represents the other viewpoint. Twayne is a Troll, who extols the virtues of using a Registry Cleaner and has many other "bright" ideas. Call it what you wish; I merely reply to EVERY post I happen to see that says registry cleaners are snake oil, never work, will cause interoperability and other such nonsense misinformation. If you don't like being called on it, be prepared to defend it, something you nor your tiny group of libelous misinfomationists can do with any sort of verifiable evidence. I shall ignore further such foolishness and OT comments in this thread. /OFF TOPIC The pagefile on the second drive should be 1.5 times the RAM. Make it 4,606 mb if that is the recommended figure. Adding further RAM to your system would be pointless as you would exceed the address space limit ,which applies to 32 bit systems.Make the partition on the second drive 5,100 mb. I would not partition the rest of the second drive unless you have a particular reason to do so. Leave it as a single partition. A lot of that is pure myth; common sense will debunk it if one will think about it. Say you have 256Meg of RAM and an image of 800 Meg to load. 256 X 1.5 = 384 Meg of pf. 384 + 256 = 640Meg. You cannot load that graphic or anything else greater than 640 - room for whatever program you have running. Even with 512 Meg, considering the room needed for many graphic programs, that same 800 Meg graphic still won't load. Even your um, ha site agrees with those things being myth. http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php http://www.techenclave.com/guides-an...work-6519.html http://www.computing.net/answers/win...ion/13477.html The partition on C drive should be 50 mb on a basis that minimum = maximum. This accomodates the system needs and permits the creation of a dump file should have the misfortune to suffer a BSOD ( Blue Screen of Death ) error. That size depends on which dump you have enabled. 50M should be more like 200 M but it is a movable figure. Hi/low=same is OK for a boot drive pf where there will be another one on another drive. I would not partition your the first drive. I wouldn't partition anything. My supper is ready so I will write later about the merits of firther partitioning. This is another controversional topic where you encounter two viewpoints. There are a lot more than two viewpoints here. To get a good look at the overall picture you really need to exercise your favorite search engine bei ti google or yahoo or whatever you use. HTH, Twayne` timOleary wrote: On Jun 13, 2:00 am, "Gerry" wrote: Tim You will get two replies. One from each side of the pagefile debate. As I understand it the the quickest read / write speeds are at the beginning of the drive. If you do not partition the pagefile it will be placed in the middle of the drive. With nothing on the disk you can reformat and partition the disk without third party tools. Once the drive is populated you cannot partition non-destructively without third party tools, so if you are going to partition, it is best to do it now. If you do not partition, a fixed size pagefile will be positioned in the middle of the drive, where read / write speeds are slower. If you opt for a windows managed pagefile that will work until the disk goes below 60% free disk space. At this point the pagefile will start to fragment free disk space and file fragmentation becomes more problematic. It becomes increasingly more difficult to create a single contiguous pagefile where there is less than 50% free disk space. Another argument for a fixed size pagefile. Create a generous dedicated pagefile partiton now and you can forget the impact of pagefile fragmentation for the life of your drives. As a consequence defragmentation of the second partition takes less time than it would if you had a windows managed pagefile. Moving the pagefile to a dedicated partition on the second drive will also reduce the time it takes to defragment the first drive. However, do not forget to leave a 50 mb minimum = maximum pagefile on C to accomodate the needs of the system. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ timOleary wrote: On Jun 12, 9:07 am, "Mike Hall - MVP" wrote: "timOleary" wrote in message ... I want to modify my pagefile. Currently it is on my C drive; initial 1536 max 3072, but recommended size is 4606mb I aded RAM since the system was first set up So I want to add another pagefile to my D drive which I do not use much at all. What size should I make the pagefiles, and for the one on the D drive, should I put it in its own partition? Currently the drive is not partitioned, has 16.9G used and 215G free. there are three folders I can see on it: MSO Cache 0 bytes RECYCLER 178 Kbytes System Volume information 0 bytes What is recycler? some backup program my wife downloaded? Thanks Tim Unless you have two separate physical drives, leave the pagefile on C and let the system manage it.. -- Mike Hall - MVP Windows Experiencehttp://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/ Sorry for not answering the drive question. I have a C and a D drive (two separate physical drives). The existing page file is where Windows placed it. And my question was how I should alter the pagefile size on C, and What parameters I should set for the additional pagefile on the D drive. And is it necessary to partition the D drive and place the pagefile in there, or just put it on the d drive? BTW: I know that my 32 bit system does not fully utilize the $G of RAM. Thanks for the feedback This information is what I was after, and your explanation was clear and I concur. Thanks The Microsoft help article I found on pagefiles was not clear to me regarding the partition issue for the D drive. I will definitely partition the D drive. How big a partition would you recommend? Can you offer some suggestions as to parameters for the two pagefiles? I can see what Windows recommends, but I think the parameters shown as assuming a single page file on the C drive. Does it also make sense to cosnsider partitioning the C drive and placing the pagefile in its own place? I would not do that in the foreseeable future. Thanks again |
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timOleary wrote:
On Jun 13, 7:10 pm, "Gerry" wrote: Mike What different scenarios? -- Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mike Hall - MVP wrote: "Gerry" wrote in message ... Tim Mike represents the other viewpoint. Twayne is a Troll, who extols the virtues of using a Registry Cleaner and has many other "bright" ideas. The pagefile on the second drive should be 1.5 times the RAM. Make it 4,606 mb if that is the recommended figure. Adding further RAM to your system would be pointless as you would exceed the address space limit ,which applies to 32 bit systems.Make the partition on the second drive 5,100 mb. I would not partition the rest of the second drive unless you have a particular reason to do so. Leave it as a single partition. The partition on C drive should be 50 mb on a basis that minimum = maximum. This accomodates the system needs and permits the creation of a dump file should have the misfortune to suffer a BSOD ( Blue Screen of Death ) error. I would not partition your the first drive. My supper is ready so I will write later about the merits of firther partitioning. This is another controversional topic where you encounter two viewpoints. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gerry They are two different approaches for two different scenarios I am trying to familiarize myself with adjusting the pagefile but my settings do not seem to be 'sticking' please review these screen shots and tell me what the settings should be and what I'm doing wrong. http://www.postimage.org/gallery.php... b4d58&sid=Pq finally, if I manage to get the settings updated, how can I test the PC to measure the improvement? thanks If you forget to click "Set" before leaving the window, the settings won't be "set". Maybe that's the problem? Twayne |
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timOleary wrote:
On Jun 13, 7:10 pm, "Gerry" wrote: Mike What different scenarios? -- Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mike Hall - MVP wrote: "Gerry" wrote in message ... Tim Mike represents the other viewpoint. Twayne is a Troll, who extols the virtues of using a Registry Cleaner and has many other "bright" ideas. The pagefile on the second drive should be 1.5 times the RAM. Make it 4,606 mb if that is the recommended figure. Adding further RAM to your system would be pointless as you would exceed the address space limit ,which applies to 32 bit systems.Make the partition on the second drive 5,100 mb. I would not partition the rest of the second drive unless you have a particular reason to do so. Leave it as a single partition. The partition on C drive should be 50 mb on a basis that minimum = maximum. This accomodates the system needs and permits the creation of a dump file should have the misfortune to suffer a BSOD ( Blue Screen of Death ) error. I would not partition your the first drive. My supper is ready so I will write later about the merits of firther partitioning. This is another controversional topic where you encounter two viewpoints. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gerry They are two different approaches for two different scenarios I am trying to familiarize myself with adjusting the pagefile but my settings do not seem to be 'sticking' please review these screen shots and tell me what the settings should be and what I'm doing wrong. http://www.postimage.org/gallery.php... b4d58&sid=Pq finally, if I manage to get the settings updated, how can I test the PC to measure the improvement? thanks If you forget to click "Set" before leaving the window, the settings won't be "set". Maybe that's the problem? Twayne |
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Tim
Select Start, Control Panel, System, Advanced tab, Performance click Settings, select the Advanced tab, and under Virtual memory click Change. Under Drive [Volume Label], click the drive that contains the paging file that you want to change. Under Paging file size for selected drive, click Custom size, type a new paging file size in megabytes (MB) in the Initial size (MB) or Maximum size (MB) box, and then click Set. Click OK to close the dialog box and Apply on the next page. Restart the computer to Apply the changes. The Set and the Apply buttons often get overlooked. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ timOleary wrote: On Jun 13, 7:10 pm, "Gerry" wrote: Mike What different scenarios? -- Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mike Hall - MVP wrote: "Gerry" wrote in message ... Tim Mike represents the other viewpoint. Twayne is a Troll, who extols the virtues of using a Registry Cleaner and has many other "bright" ideas. The pagefile on the second drive should be 1.5 times the RAM. Make it 4,606 mb if that is the recommended figure. Adding further RAM to your system would be pointless as you would exceed the address space limit ,which applies to 32 bit systems.Make the partition on the second drive 5,100 mb. I would not partition the rest of the second drive unless you have a particular reason to do so. Leave it as a single partition. The partition on C drive should be 50 mb on a basis that minimum = maximum. This accomodates the system needs and permits the creation of a dump file should have the misfortune to suffer a BSOD ( Blue Screen of Death ) error. I would not partition your the first drive. My supper is ready so I will write later about the merits of firther partitioning. This is another controversional topic where you encounter two viewpoints. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gerry They are two different approaches for two different scenarios I am trying to familiarize myself with adjusting the pagefile but my settings do not seem to be 'sticking' please review these screen shots and tell me what the settings should be and what I'm doing wrong. http://www.postimage.org/gallery.php... b4d58&sid=Pq finally, if I manage to get the settings updated, how can I test the PC to measure the improvement? thanks |
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Tim
Select Start, Control Panel, System, Advanced tab, Performance click Settings, select the Advanced tab, and under Virtual memory click Change. Under Drive [Volume Label], click the drive that contains the paging file that you want to change. Under Paging file size for selected drive, click Custom size, type a new paging file size in megabytes (MB) in the Initial size (MB) or Maximum size (MB) box, and then click Set. Click OK to close the dialog box and Apply on the next page. Restart the computer to Apply the changes. The Set and the Apply buttons often get overlooked. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ timOleary wrote: On Jun 13, 7:10 pm, "Gerry" wrote: Mike What different scenarios? -- Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mike Hall - MVP wrote: "Gerry" wrote in message ... Tim Mike represents the other viewpoint. Twayne is a Troll, who extols the virtues of using a Registry Cleaner and has many other "bright" ideas. The pagefile on the second drive should be 1.5 times the RAM. Make it 4,606 mb if that is the recommended figure. Adding further RAM to your system would be pointless as you would exceed the address space limit ,which applies to 32 bit systems.Make the partition on the second drive 5,100 mb. I would not partition the rest of the second drive unless you have a particular reason to do so. Leave it as a single partition. The partition on C drive should be 50 mb on a basis that minimum = maximum. This accomodates the system needs and permits the creation of a dump file should have the misfortune to suffer a BSOD ( Blue Screen of Death ) error. I would not partition your the first drive. My supper is ready so I will write later about the merits of firther partitioning. This is another controversional topic where you encounter two viewpoints. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gerry They are two different approaches for two different scenarios I am trying to familiarize myself with adjusting the pagefile but my settings do not seem to be 'sticking' please review these screen shots and tell me what the settings should be and what I'm doing wrong. http://www.postimage.org/gallery.php... b4d58&sid=Pq finally, if I manage to get the settings updated, how can I test the PC to measure the improvement? thanks |
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On Jun 14, 1:56*pm, "Gerry" wrote:
Tim Select Start, Control Panel, System, Advanced tab, Performance click Settings, select the Advanced tab, and *under Virtual memory click Change. Under Drive [Volume Label], click the drive that contains the paging file that you want to change. Under Paging file size for selected drive, click Custom size, type a new paging file size in megabytes (MB) in the Initial size (MB) or Maximum size (MB) box, and then click Set. Click OK to close the dialog box and Apply on the next page. Restart the computer to Apply the changes. The Set and the Apply buttons often get overlooked. -- Hope *this helps. Gerry *~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ timOleary wrote: On Jun 13, 7:10 pm, "Gerry" wrote: Mike What different scenarios? -- Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mike Hall - MVP wrote: "Gerry" wrote in message . .. Tim Mike represents the other viewpoint. Twayne is a Troll, who extols the virtues of using a Registry Cleaner and has many other "bright" ideas. The pagefile on the second drive should be 1.5 times the RAM. Make it 4,606 mb if that is the recommended figure. Adding further RAM to your system would be pointless as you would exceed the address space limit ,which applies to 32 bit systems.Make the partition on the second drive 5,100 mb. I would not partition the rest of the second drive unless you have a particular reason to do so. Leave it as a single partition. The partition on C drive should be 50 mb on a basis that minimum = maximum. This accomodates the system needs and permits the creation of a dump file should have the misfortune to suffer a BSOD ( Blue Screen of Death ) error. I would not partition your the first drive. My supper is ready so I will write later about the merits of firther partitioning. This is another controversional topic where you encounter two viewpoints. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gerry They are two different approaches for two different scenarios I am trying to familiarize myself with adjusting the pagefile but my settings do not seem to be 'sticking' please review these screen shots and tell me what the settings should be and what I'm doing wrong. http://www.postimage.org/gallery.php...6a3fd4ddb0d54b.... finally, if I manage to get the settings updated, how can I test the PC to measure the improvement? thanks thanks DUH. BTW: reading your dialog on the technical points of this issue is going to keep me busy for weeks. |
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On Jun 14, 1:56*pm, "Gerry" wrote:
Tim Select Start, Control Panel, System, Advanced tab, Performance click Settings, select the Advanced tab, and *under Virtual memory click Change. Under Drive [Volume Label], click the drive that contains the paging file that you want to change. Under Paging file size for selected drive, click Custom size, type a new paging file size in megabytes (MB) in the Initial size (MB) or Maximum size (MB) box, and then click Set. Click OK to close the dialog box and Apply on the next page. Restart the computer to Apply the changes. The Set and the Apply buttons often get overlooked. -- Hope *this helps. Gerry *~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ timOleary wrote: On Jun 13, 7:10 pm, "Gerry" wrote: Mike What different scenarios? -- Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mike Hall - MVP wrote: "Gerry" wrote in message . .. Tim Mike represents the other viewpoint. Twayne is a Troll, who extols the virtues of using a Registry Cleaner and has many other "bright" ideas. The pagefile on the second drive should be 1.5 times the RAM. Make it 4,606 mb if that is the recommended figure. Adding further RAM to your system would be pointless as you would exceed the address space limit ,which applies to 32 bit systems.Make the partition on the second drive 5,100 mb. I would not partition the rest of the second drive unless you have a particular reason to do so. Leave it as a single partition. The partition on C drive should be 50 mb on a basis that minimum = maximum. This accomodates the system needs and permits the creation of a dump file should have the misfortune to suffer a BSOD ( Blue Screen of Death ) error. I would not partition your the first drive. My supper is ready so I will write later about the merits of firther partitioning. This is another controversional topic where you encounter two viewpoints. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gerry They are two different approaches for two different scenarios I am trying to familiarize myself with adjusting the pagefile but my settings do not seem to be 'sticking' please review these screen shots and tell me what the settings should be and what I'm doing wrong. http://www.postimage.org/gallery.php...6a3fd4ddb0d54b.... finally, if I manage to get the settings updated, how can I test the PC to measure the improvement? thanks thanks DUH. BTW: reading your dialog on the technical points of this issue is going to keep me busy for weeks. |
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Tim
You're welcome. It has taken more than weeks to learn about the pagefile G. My interest in the subject started about 10 years ago, stimulated by Alex Nichol a very influential writer on the topic. Sadly Alex died in 2004. http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm You asked earlier about partitioning earlier. This link will give you ideas: http://www.aumha.org/a/parts.htm -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ timOleary wrote: thanks DUH. BTW: reading your dialog on the technical points of this issue is going to keep me busy for weeks. |
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Tim
You're welcome. It has taken more than weeks to learn about the pagefile G. My interest in the subject started about 10 years ago, stimulated by Alex Nichol a very influential writer on the topic. Sadly Alex died in 2004. http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm You asked earlier about partitioning earlier. This link will give you ideas: http://www.aumha.org/a/parts.htm -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ timOleary wrote: thanks DUH. BTW: reading your dialog on the technical points of this issue is going to keep me busy for weeks. |
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On Jun 15, 2:50*am, "Gerry" wrote:
Tim You're welcome. It has taken more than weeks to learn about the pagefile G. My interest in the subject started about 10 years ago, stimulated by Alex Nichol a very influential writer on the topic. Sadly Alex died in 2004.http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm You asked earlier about partitioning earlier. This link will give you ideas:http://www.aumha.org/a/parts.htm -- Hope *this helps. Gerry *~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ timOleary wrote: thanks DUH. BTW: reading your dialog on the technical points of this issue is going to keep me busy for weeks. thankyou again! |
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On Jun 15, 2:50*am, "Gerry" wrote:
Tim You're welcome. It has taken more than weeks to learn about the pagefile G. My interest in the subject started about 10 years ago, stimulated by Alex Nichol a very influential writer on the topic. Sadly Alex died in 2004.http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm You asked earlier about partitioning earlier. This link will give you ideas:http://www.aumha.org/a/parts.htm -- Hope *this helps. Gerry *~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ timOleary wrote: thanks DUH. BTW: reading your dialog on the technical points of this issue is going to keep me busy for weeks. thankyou again! |
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Tim
You're welcome. -- Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ timOleary wrote: On Jun 15, 2:50 am, "Gerry" wrote: Tim You're welcome. It has taken more than weeks to learn about the pagefile G. My interest in the subject started about 10 years ago, stimulated by Alex Nichol a very influential writer on the topic. Sadly Alex died in 2004.http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm You asked earlier about partitioning earlier. This link will give you ideas:http://www.aumha.org/a/parts.htm -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ timOleary wrote: thanks DUH. BTW: reading your dialog on the technical points of this issue is going to keep me busy for weeks. thankyou again! |
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help with pagefile
Tim
You're welcome. -- Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ timOleary wrote: On Jun 15, 2:50 am, "Gerry" wrote: Tim You're welcome. It has taken more than weeks to learn about the pagefile G. My interest in the subject started about 10 years ago, stimulated by Alex Nichol a very influential writer on the topic. Sadly Alex died in 2004.http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm You asked earlier about partitioning earlier. This link will give you ideas:http://www.aumha.org/a/parts.htm -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ timOleary wrote: thanks DUH. BTW: reading your dialog on the technical points of this issue is going to keep me busy for weeks. thankyou again! |
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